American surgeons have restored a woman with an artificial eye lens, mounted on transplanted into the eye tooth
Sherron Thornton from Mississippi, who is now 60 years old, blind in 2000 due to the development of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (a severe allergic reaction that causes the death of epithelial cells of the skin and mucous membranes).
After an illness of the cornea (one of the eye membranes) women became opaque. As a rule, opaque cornea substitute donor or artificial, but the organism is susceptible to severe allergic reactions people usually rejects the transplanted tissue. This is reported MedNovosti.
For such patients in Italy developed a method to transplant the eye's own tooth, which serves as support for the plastic lens. Operation by Thornton by this method in the clinic of the University of Miami, became the first in the U.S..
First, the surgeon Victor Perez to the assistant removed the upper canine woman with a fragment of bone surrounding the root, and drilled it, and put the resulting hole in the plastic lens. Then the construction of two months the patient was placed under the skin to prirosshey to tooth tissue of the skin served as a connecting element between it and the eye. Then, with a fragment of canine skin transplanted to the center of the eye, restoring its optical system.
15 days after complete healing of postoperative wounds and the removal of the fixing eye vision devices Thornton rebounded so much that she could read.
Sherron Thornton from Mississippi, who is now 60 years old, blind in 2000 due to the development of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (a severe allergic reaction that causes the death of epithelial cells of the skin and mucous membranes).
After an illness of the cornea (one of the eye membranes) women became opaque. As a rule, opaque cornea substitute donor or artificial, but the organism is susceptible to severe allergic reactions people usually rejects the transplanted tissue. This is reported MedNovosti.
For such patients in Italy developed a method to transplant the eye's own tooth, which serves as support for the plastic lens. Operation by Thornton by this method in the clinic of the University of Miami, became the first in the U.S..
First, the surgeon Victor Perez to the assistant removed the upper canine woman with a fragment of bone surrounding the root, and drilled it, and put the resulting hole in the plastic lens. Then the construction of two months the patient was placed under the skin to prirosshey to tooth tissue of the skin served as a connecting element between it and the eye. Then, with a fragment of canine skin transplanted to the center of the eye, restoring its optical system.
15 days after complete healing of postoperative wounds and the removal of the fixing eye vision devices Thornton rebounded so much that she could read.
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